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This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant … COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant issues under the lens of a health labor market. In particular, the … paper interprets this information and knowledge by focusing on the supply, demand, and mismatches in a health labor market …
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and proximity. Additionally, these cyclones prompt individuals to acknowledge the significance of home-related insurance … and actively seek coverage. Alongside long-distance domestic migration, insurance acquisition emerges as another … among these coping strategies depends on factors such as cyclone severity, age, prior homeownership, income, insurance …
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several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...
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the country's labor demand during the pandemic. These findings indicate that the effective management of public health …
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integrating early, targeted and coordinated public health measures with more equitable social policy, and with health care policy … that realigns incentives of the major players in the health care market. Drawing on evidence from past and present … epidemics as well as comparing variations in response to the current health emergency between China, the U.S. and beyond, we …
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. For instance, mothers with worse mental health or riskier lifestyles are much less likely to claim the available benefits …
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address this issue, the governments of LMICs have initiated health insurance programs that target these poor populations …. However, the health benefits these programs provide are often limited due to resource constraints in LMICs. In this paper, we … study the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a limited coverage insurance program for rural residents in China, to …
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depend heavily on their state of health. This study evaluates the effects of pensions on older adults' health service …, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we adopted a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and … undertook segmented regression analysis. Pension demonstrated heterogeneous effects on health service utilization by income. We …
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